Oh, look at that picture.

Who will even know it's Boy George?

Mel Gibson, you are discredited forever.

Everything you ever did is now tainted. "Freedom!" It has no meaning anymore. What artist has ever crashed like this? Not Michael ...

Unwinding.

Here's the lobby of my hotel. Does it look familiar? Have you been here? There's a nice fire over there in the fireplace. Isn't ...

Elko to ??.

I've checked into my posh hotel and thought I should check in here too so you'll know I've survived to blog another evening. I m...

While I'm away...

Feel free to use this post to comment on any news stories or other topics of interest. Comment on my Instapundit post if you like.

"I don't listen to a whole lot of new music. I just kind of scan the channels and see what's out there."

Yeah, me too. And I've got to get in the car and scan on and on for about 400 miles today, or I'd spend more time reading this nice,...

Boomer slackers.

What's with these guys? Shouldn't they get back to work? Or is one hidden secret of life that your time is really yours, and if you...

Instapunditry.

I'm guest-blogging on Instapundit again. Yes, I'm on the road. Nevertheless... I do have three co-bloggers: Megan McArdle , Michael...

Audible Althouse #60.

A podcast recorded in a motel room in Elko, Nevada. . You can stream it right on your computer -- no iPod needed -- right here . But all the...

Leaving San Jose.

Either the city has been invaded by giant sci-fi mutant insects or the San Jose Grand Prix continues into Sunday. It's time for me to li...

"The sort of movie that plays best when you stumble across it on cable."

I'm clicking through the Rotten Tomatoes reviews of "Leonard Cohen -- I'm Your Man," and this "Short Takes" one ...

Chez BlogHer.

My conference session is over and I'm re-ensconced at my posh hotel, where I'm nibbling sushi and sipping Pouilly-Fuissé and listeni...

Light art.

At the San Jose Art Museum. The installation -- full of undulating lights -- is by Jennifer Steinkamp . I loved taking photos here, because ...

"Condoleezza Rice: Midwife from Hell."

Speaking of magazines, here's a lovely piece from a little magazine from Madison, Wisconsin. Her description of the conflagration in Le...

"Will Israel Live to 100?"

That's the title of an article, by Benjamin Schwarz, published in The Atlantic in May 2005. It's currently #1 on the "Top fifte...

Drive talk.

Driving across the continent this week, I listened to the satellite radio for hours and hours. Around Madison, I stay with the music channel...

The mystery of Bob Dylan's motorcycle crash.

It happened a long time ago, and it's now written up as history . Since he was not very seriously injured -- no ambulance was called to ...

What the new Woody Allen movie "Scoop" is really about.

The new Woody Allen movie "Scoop" -- which I saw last night -- is ostensibly about a beautiful college girl who fancies herself a ...

Photo op.

That's our Bush: ADDED: Can you tell who's happy and who's freaked out at having this imposed on him/her? In the latter category...

McCain and Mrs. Clinton.

In a boozing contest! AND: Holy Mel, DUI. UPDATE: Here 's the NYT article that was referred to in that first link. Excerpt: Mrs. Clinton...

You've heard of Heartbreak Hotel.

Then there's Hard Day's Night Hotel .

Convention, Convertible, Contrex, Chardonnay, Condom.

Stumbling into the BlogHer conference, completely late for Day 1, I go first for the test drive. There's a bunch of cars, including a li...

Mellified man.

I'm suddenly getting lots of traffic from people searching for "mellified man." I come up #1 on this search . Here 's my o...

A city polarized by sex.

At one end of the city, we've got your testosterone. At the other end, your estrogen. The San Jose Mercury-News provides the gender ana...

Jeremy's wound-blogging.

Here 's Jeremy's contribution to this important, though small, subgenre of blogging. And while we're over at Jeremy's, let...

Oscar plunges into anti-Bush blogging.

I'm always bugging my colleague "Oscar Madison" to write some more political things. Like last week, when he did a nearly non-...

Notes from the road.

• Finally, a day without driving! Someone in the comments to the previous post said those last 200 miles must have been hard. Indeed. Not on...

The Nevada Club.

Oh, I drove so many miles on Thursday. This will be a Friday post because it's after midnight, Central Time, though it's still Thurs...

Another long drive.

I see I've set myself up for another long drive today, going all the way from Moab -- I'll have more photos later -- to San Jose, vi...

"The Iraqi prime minister is an anti-Semite."

Said Howard Dean: "We don't need to spend $200 and $300 and $500 billion bringing democracy to Iraq to turn it over to people who b...

"Every generation has a defining moment... This Was Ours."

That's the voiceover -- accompanied by Coldplay music -- in a new ad for Oliver Stone's movie "World Trade Center." Test s...

Reaching Utah.

I drove what seemed like all day. But it was only half as much as yesterday. Big mushroom-shaped thunderstorms loomed in the expanse of des...

What the poet/undertaker said and where he said it.

I was listening to the XM public radio channel as I was driving across Colorado on Route 70. It was Thomas Lynch, that poet/undertaker who w...

Repressible.

You often hear someone described as irrepressible, so why is no one ever called repressible ? Are all those people who aren't irrepress...

On the road.

As you can see from the previous post, I'm on the road. I put in a crazy 15 hours of utilitarian driving yesterday to set myself up for ...

1000 miles.

I drove today, getting the boring part of the drive behind me. I'm really too fried to write a blog post, but what is this blogging ente...

"What should Wisconsin do?"

Glenn Reynolds opines on the Kevin Barrett controversy: They've got two problems here. No, make that three. Problem one is that they hi...

"The ‘debate’ over teaching evolution is.... about God and whether science somehow threatens one’s belief in God"?

Instead of objecting to that, some scientists want to have that conversation.

"Imagine the most evil supervillain and the nicest, sweetest cartoon animal."

I hate to think so much of our personality lies at the genetic level, but let's look at the evidence about nonhuman animals: In one co...

Would the university allow a white supremacist or a Holocaust denier to teach?

UW Regent Jeffrey B. Bartell says he'll respond to that question, which he's been hearing a lot lately. Here's how the response...

Comment moderation.

Friends, I've had to turn on comment moderation. This will cause some delay in getting your comments to show up, as I will have to appro...

Dreamspace.

Deathspace. (More here .)

"A shameful question."

Seven bloggers -- including me -- have short essays in The Chronicle of Higher Education about Juan Cole and the risks of being a blogging ...

"What have you got there? Babies?"

"Oh, all right. I won't bug you then. But I wish you would go live somewhere else." = what I just said, verbatim, to a rabbit...

"Ann Althouse is always worth reading, but she has absolutely been on fire...."

Great beginning for a blog post! It's David French over at Phi Beta Cons, weighing in on the Kevin Barrett controversy.

Two lawprofs, vlogging.

You might call this The Ann & Tonya Vlog. It's me and Tonya Brito , starting off talking about that "eye for an eye" op-ed...

An eye for an eye is a subjective game.

Suggests Daniel Gilbert, the Harvard psychologist, in an op-ed in today's NYT. Here's a study he describes: The researcher began th...

What if the judge reads the lawprof's blog?

And the lawprof has analyzed the issue in the judge's case? Howard Bashman asks: What is the judge to do? Should he stop reading the blo...

Kos and Israel.

The Weekly Standard describes the political problem Israel's war presents for Daily Kos: Combined, the half dozen front-pagers have writ...

Not the usual political discussion.

Elisa Camahort assures BlogHer conventioneers that the political blogging session -- which includes me -- is not going to be about the usua...

Where I was. What I was reading.

Yes, I spent some time with the NYT Book Review this afternoon. The Book Review and the acrostic. IN THE COMMENTS: JLR asked if I read the H...

"Nobody ever went broke overestimating the self-absorption of the Democratic Party."

Writes Tobin Harshaw in the NYT Book Review. I'd prefer to stock up on all those Beatles and Bob Dylan books mentioned in the previous p...

Is there anything else to say about the Beach Boys?

Bruce Handy thinks not , judging by Peter Ames Carlin's "Catch a Wave." So why is there another book on the subject? Handy h...

"He was a loving man doing his best to raise a son..."

"...away from the zany antics of the 1960’s that got in the way of doing a better job with my stepbrother, Jack. He played baseball wit...

"I don’t pretend to know a lot about what’s going on in life most of the time."

"But I had good parents who taught me that hard work and patience were some of the most important things in getting what you wanted....

Stanley Fish takes on the Kevin Barrett controversy.

Stanley Fish takes on the Kevin Barrett controversy in an op-ed in the NYT today: Mr. Barrett’s critics argue that academic freedom has lim...